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Editorial Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of Differential Equations and Its Applications Yongli Song, 1 Junling Ma, 2 Yonghui Xia, 3 Sanling Yuan, 4 and Tonghua Zhang 5 1 Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3R4 3 Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China 4 College of Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 20093, China 5 Department of Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Yongli Song; [email protected] Received 9 December 2014; Accepted 9 December 2014 Copyright © 2015 Yongli Song et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Starting from Poincar´ e’s qualitative theory and Lyapunov’s stability theory of a dynamical system, stability and bifurca- tion theory has undergone a prodigious development. Stabil- ity and bifurcation theory of differential equations is relatively a mature research area, yet it has seen rapid developments in recent years. ese advances have led to broad applications in many fields, such as physics, engineering, biology, neuro- science, economics, and even life and social sciences. It is well known that delay is typically a primary source of oscillatory behaviour in delay differential equations and dif- fusion oſten causes Turing instability and becomes a primary source of spatial dynamics in reaction-diffusion equations. erefore, we have targeted these topics in this special issue. e special issue received tremendous response from the researchers in this research field. So far, we have received 124 papers, which contribute to the research field with the infu- sion of new ideas and methods. All papers submitted to this special issue went through a rigorous peer-review process. Based on the reviewers’ reports, we have carefully selected 48 original research papers for publication, which contain the delay-induced instability, stability switches, and Hopf bifurcations in delay differential equations; nonlinear insta- bility, bifurcations, and blow-up solutions and travelling wave solutions in the reaction-diffusion equations; and almost periodic solutions in the stochastic differential equations. It is impossible to collect all recently important advances in the field of bifurcation theory of differential equations by a single special issue. But we believe that the papers to be published in this special issue can at least partially reflect some new advances and ideas in the field and do hope this special issue can influence the research field of bifurcation theory of differential equations in future. Acknowledgments e guest editors of this special issue would like to take this opportunity to thank all contributors for submitting their excellent work to this issue and all reviewers for their hard work and academic support to this special issue. ey would also like to thank the editorial board members of this journal for their technical support and help during the whole period. Yongli Song Junling Ma Yonghui Xia Sanling Yuan Tonghua Zhang Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2015, Article ID 343528, 1 page http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/343528

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EditorialStability and Bifurcation Analysis of Differential Equations andIts Applications

Yongli Song,1 Junling Ma,2 Yonghui Xia,3 Sanling Yuan,4 and Tonghua Zhang5

1Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3R43Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China4College of Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 20093, China5Department of Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia

Correspondence should be addressed to Yongli Song; [email protected]

Received 9 December 2014; Accepted 9 December 2014

Copyright © 2015 Yongli Song et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Starting from Poincare’s qualitative theory and Lyapunov’sstability theory of a dynamical system, stability and bifurca-tion theory has undergone a prodigious development. Stabil-ity and bifurcation theory of differential equations is relativelya mature research area, yet it has seen rapid developments inrecent years. These advances have led to broad applicationsin many fields, such as physics, engineering, biology, neuro-science, economics, and even life and social sciences.

It is well known that delay is typically a primary source ofoscillatory behaviour in delay differential equations and dif-fusion often causes Turing instability and becomes a primarysource of spatial dynamics in reaction-diffusion equations.Therefore, we have targeted these topics in this special issue.The special issue received tremendous response from theresearchers in this research field. So far, we have received 124papers, which contribute to the research field with the infu-sion of new ideas and methods. All papers submitted to thisspecial issue went through a rigorous peer-review process.Based on the reviewers’ reports, we have carefully selected48 original research papers for publication, which containthe delay-induced instability, stability switches, and Hopfbifurcations in delay differential equations; nonlinear insta-bility, bifurcations, and blow-up solutions and travellingwavesolutions in the reaction-diffusion equations; and almostperiodic solutions in the stochastic differential equations.

It is impossible to collect all recently important advancesin the field of bifurcation theory of differential equations by

a single special issue. But we believe that the papers to bepublished in this special issue can at least partially reflectsome new advances and ideas in the field and do hope thisspecial issue can influence the research field of bifurcationtheory of differential equations in future.

Acknowledgments

The guest editors of this special issue would like to take thisopportunity to thank all contributors for submitting theirexcellent work to this issue and all reviewers for their hardwork and academic support to this special issue. They wouldalso like to thank the editorial board members of this journalfor their technical support and help during the whole period.

Yongli SongJunling MaYonghui XiaSanling Yuan

Tonghua Zhang

Hindawi Publishing CorporationAbstract and Applied AnalysisVolume 2015, Article ID 343528, 1 pagehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/343528

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